Best Ever Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies recipe made with a full cup of peanut butter! We added chocolate chips plus peanut butter chips & Reese’s Pieces to our favorite peanut butter cookie recipe to get the ULTIMATE chocolate peanut butter cookies!
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I modified Nellie’s recipe for The BEST Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies to include Reese’s and they’re fantastic! I love that the cookies are soft and have a great peanut butter flavor. Read on to get the recipe to make your own!
Tips to get the PERFECT Peanut Butter Cookies:
Three kitchen items make these cookies come together really fast. I actually use these items in nearly every cookie recipe I make, so they’re quite versatile. First, I line my cookie sheets with a piece of parchment paper. They’re sold in sizes that fit a 12×16 cookie sheet perfectly and enable to cookies to bake well without sticking- and no mess from spraying oil on the cookie sheets!
The third item is a cookie scoop! Years and years ago I used to use 2 spoons to measure and scrape cookie dough onto the pans. It wasn’t a perfect process and I often ended up with oblong cookies in various sizes. My solution? A cookie scoop! They come in three sizes- 1/2 tablespoon, 1.5 tablespoon and 3 tablespoon scoops. I used the middle size- 1.5 tablespoon for these, and most other cookies. (Although when I’m serving a large crowd, I use the small cookie scoop. People love having a smaller cookie, especially at an event with several other desserts.) For this Peanut Butter Cookie recipe I used the middle scoop and even the large 3 TBSP scoop for a few cookies!
How to make the BEST Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Most peanut butter cookies done have chocolate chips in them. Yeah, we changed that! I decided to make the ULTIMATE peanut butter cookie recipe here by not only adding semi-sweet chocolate chips, but also peanut butter chips, mini Reese’s Pieces and regular sized Reese’s Pieces. The result? A fantastic soft peanut butter cookie with loads of fun! You’re welcome to add a mixture of all the chocolate and candies like we did, just have it all measure about 2 cups. I added more on top too, because, why not?!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookie Ingredients
Here’s what you’ll need to make these cookies:
–peanut butter- creamy or chunky, you decide
–butter, softened- I use salted butter
–granulated sugar
–brown sugar
–1 egg
–milk
–vanilla extract
— all purpose flour
–baking powder
–salt
–chocolate chips/ Reese’s- I used a combination of the two and added more to the top of each cookie!
How to make Peanut Butter Cookies:
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With a hand mixer, cream together the peanut butter, butter, white sugar and brown sugar until blended.
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Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla.
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Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
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Add flour mixture to the peanut butter mixture and mix together. Stir in whatever mix of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, mini Reese’s pieces and regular Reese’s Pieces you’d like! I used about 1/2 cup of each, reserving some of the Reese’s Pieces for the top of the cookies.
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Scoop tablespoonfuls of dough and roll into balls.
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Place cookies 2 inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheets. Press additional Reese’s Pieces onto each cookie dough ball.
Like these Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies? You might enjoy some of our other peanut butter recipes too:
- Peanut Butter Butterfinger Cookies
- Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Blondies
- Peanut Butter Fudge Cups
- Tiger Butter Fudge
- 3 Ingredient Reese’s Fudge
- Peanut Butter Banana Bars
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Buckeye Recipe
- Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies
Reese's Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup + 2 TBSP butter softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups chocolate chips, Reese's, etc set aside 1/4 cup Reese's for topping
Instructions
- With a mixer, cream together the peanut butter, butter, white sugar and brown sugar until blended.
- Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla.
- Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add flour mixture to the peanut butter mixture and mix together. Stir in whatever mix of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, mini Reese's pieces and regular Reese's Pieces you'd like! I used about 1/2 cup of each, reserving some of the Reese's Pieces for the top of the cookies.
- Scoop tablespoonfuls of dough and roll into balls.
- Place cookies 2 inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheets. Press additional Reese's Pieces onto each cookie dough ball.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes at 375. Don’t overcook! These cookies are much better soft and just barely cooked all the way through. I baked the cookies scooped with the medium 1.5 TBSP scoop for 8 minutes and the 3 TBSP cookies for 10 minutes.
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Best Ever Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies recipe made with a full cup of peanut butter! We added chocolate chips plus peanut butter chips & Reese’s Pieces to our favorite peanut butter cookie recipe to get the ULTIMATE chocolate peanut butter cookies!
Alison says
I made these for my family thinking my kids would love them and they did! It turns out, though, that I loved them just as much!! New favorite!
Kassie Miller says
Total Peanut Butter Cookie lover here, I’ll confess. And these PB cookies are JUST what I need after a long and stressful day!
michele says
I loved the trick to put a lot of the chips on the top of the dough before you bake it! They looked almost as great as they tasted! …. seriously, you killed my diet, but it was worth it. They really are the ultimate Reeces Cookie!
Dana DeVolk says
Wow, these cookies were a show stopper and so easy too! Thanks so much!!
Jill says
These cookies did not flatten at all. I’ve always pressed PB cookie dough down before baking but this recipe didn’t say to do that. They taste fine but look nothing like the photos.
Jessica says
Try adding a little milk! Weather, humidity and elevation can affect cookies, so I like to bake a few first, then adjust accordingly. 🙂
Bonnie Dold says
Can you make these sugar free?
Jessica says
I’ve tried it Bonnie, but I imagine you could use an equivalent sugar substitute!
Jo U says
Totally want to try this recipe! I’m a fan of anything peanut butter and chocolate!
Do you think it work also adding Mini Reese peanut butter cups and/or cut up regular ones to the recipe as well? A little more chocolate couldn’t hurt, right?!
Nellie says
That sounds like a great idea! More chocolate is ALWAYS a good idea!
Cheryl says
Followed the recipe exactly. I would not make these again. They had good flavor but were really dry when cooked. Also mine did not flatten down at all. Maybe because I didn’t add chips to the top to sorta flatten them before baking. Not really sure. I’ll just keep looking for that perfect peanut butter cookie recipe.
Jenn says
All I can say is OMG! This is my new go-to pb cookie instead of my grandma’s (sorry gma!). Can’t wait for hubs to get home and try these!
Alison says
Wow! We are honored to be ranked that high! So glad you love these Jenn!
Sofia Malik says
cookies did not flatten at all… will continue my search for a perfect pb cookie
Jessica says
Sometimes I have to add milk to cookie recipes to make them the texture I want. Just fyi! It’s not the recipe- it’s the baking conditions. : )
deb says
These are by far the BEST peanut butter chocolate chip Reese’s pieces cookies! I have no idea why these other people are having any issues. I make these cookies all the time, and they always turn out perfectly! That’s what I love about all of your recipes, they are consistent every time you make the recipe! Thanks for another favorite!!!
Lynn says
The flavor is nice, but I’m wondering about the amount of flour … these cookies don’t hold together at all. They can’t be picked up by hand, only with a spatula or they crumble.
Jessica says
Sounds like something didn’t go quite right because I haven’t heard of that issue before. What kind of peanut butter did you use?
Ginny Kubiak says
Everyone loves these cookies! They almost melt in your mouth, they’re so creamy and peanut buttery.
Will be replacing my old PB cookie recipe with this one!
sherri says
My cookies came out very dry but cakey if that makes sense. They tasted super soft and did not hold well. I followed the directions but for some reason they did not hold shape
Nicole says
Not. A. Fan. Would not make again as they are super dry , didn’t flatten, and crumbly. Didn’t hold shape. Was surprised it called for baking POWDER and not baking SODA. The dough was tasty and I should’ve just refrigerated the rest of the batter into dough balls and ate them that way. Bummer because they looked delicious in the picture. Note: did it bake past the 8 minutes.